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Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The friendship that made Google huge (New Yorker)

Interview with Imran Khan (Washington Post)

A sloppy hatchet job on Modinomics (Anantha Nageswaran)

On Maratha Reservations (Caravan)

Reconsidering the Jewish American Princess (Vox)

Riots in France (New Yorker)

Seoul-Tokyo brawl (ATimes)

The inspiring story of a Maharashtra Farmer (BI)

Babur, Baburnama & Babri (Madras Courier)

Learning to be properly married (Mint)

Naturally Stupid (Media Crooks)

Metallica’s Whiskey (Esquire)

Travelogue: Iran (Daily O)

Mumbai Notebook (Anil Dharker)

Remembering George H W Bush (Mikhail Gorbachev)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Hindu,Hinduer, Hinduest (Outlook)

Enter from third exit (Rahul Pandita)

The anti-India bias of Western Media (Minhaz Merchant)

Don’t fear the Congress party (Shashi Tharoor)

The Unified Theory of Ram Dass (GQ)

Anti-Semitism in France (Guardian)

The Military bases of Djibouti (ATimes)

Is WikiLeaks a Russian Front? (Atlantic)

Drive to Kachenjunga (Team BHP)

Rahul Gandhi’s Shiv Bhakti roots (Gossip Guru)

Me & Mrs. Obama (J Mathrubootham)

Raising a Bangladeshi family in Detroit (Brown Girl)

Emperor Jahangir & Guru Hargobind Singh (Madras Courier)

Death of a Missionary (Washington Post)

With Love from Chennai (DailyO)

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

The Day of the Drone (Open)

How Facebook brought political trickery to Tech (NYTimes)

Mexico’s mass graves (Mens Journal)

Yemen & global warming (ATimes)

Trump’s love affair with Saudi Arabia (Atlantic)

Organised Crime in UK (Guardian)

Becoming Anne Frank (Smithsonian)

My letter to a nightclub (Brown Girl)

Piyush Goyal Vs Anil Ambani (Gossip Guru)

Nur & The Koh-i-Noor (MC)

Deng Xiaoping in France (SCMP)

The genius and patriot that was C V Raman (Ratnakar Sadasyula)

Not one fellow has new ideas (J Mathrubootham)

Mountaineering: A rescue at 8,000 metres (Mint)

Ayodhya Diary (HP)

 

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The tragedy of Saudi Arabia’s War (NYTimes)

The wild, wild story of the MEK (Guardian)

Ram Mandir: Ab Nahi To Kab? (Swarajya)

Which way will Behenji go? (Rahul Pandita)

Inside Israels’ YAMAM (Vanity Fair)

Blasphemy, Pakistan’s New Religion (Mohammed Hanif)

Jose Mourinho’s last stand (ESPN)

DIY: Android Car Tracker (Team BHP)

Why Mughal Emperor Jahangir wanted to milk a lioness (HP)

What you can expect from today’s youth? (J Mathrubootham)

When Michael Jackson performed in Mumbai (Madras Courier)

The Blood Bath of Kodavas by Tipu Sultan (Readoo)

The Colonial State & India’s Gods (Manu Pillai)

The dark side of Langkawi (SCMP)

Remembering Iqbal (Dawn)

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

India’s Job Crisis (Nandan Nilekani)

Modi’s Netaji political coup (M Paranjape)

Nageswara Rao, IPS (Savukku)

From Lithuania, With Love (Roads & Kingdoms)

Vancouver: Drowning in Chinese Money (Bloomberg)

Kidnappings on the Iran-Pakistan border (ATimes)

How Erdogan took control of the Khashoggi case (Dawn)

Did Uber steal Google’s IP (New Yorker)

Durga Puja Diaries, Kolkata (Team BHP)

Woes of Ghulam Nabi Azad (Gossip Guru)

The biggest problem (J Mathrubootham)

The Baha’i Lotus Temple (Madras Courier)

Baijiu as the new whisky (SCMP)

The Conqueror of Destiny (Aatish Taseer)

R K Narayan’s second opinions (Caravan)